Government Operations committee  While I was elected?

Government Operations committee  No.

Government Operations committee  I can provide...I can look to see. The one passport, unfortunately, throughout the whole process.... I don't know if this was made public. I was inquired about this by a journalist. When we came back from our trip—we were away during this whole episode when this Toronto Star article happened, when Helena was dismissed from caucus and cabinet.

Government Operations committee  I lost both that and my citizenship card, but I did report that to both the—

Government Operations committee  Of course, yes.

Government Operations committee  Yes, of course.

Government Operations committee  Right. Let me go back. I don't think you were here at the committee when I addressed this particular issue.

Government Operations committee  No, but just in today's appearance, one of the things that I said happened with that particular business card—and it was qualified to the people at that meeting that day, because this wasn't a habit. I would not hand out a business card that—

Government Operations committee  I said, “Here's a collector's item that happens to be in my jacket.” Why would I advertise I was a loser?

Government Operations committee  Just so you're clear, Nathan—

Government Operations committee  —I appreciate this question because there is some explanation. There is a process for the green fund where you submit proposals. It goes through the minister's office. It goes through the bureaucracy. If it has merit, it's considered to go forward. If it has merit, then you are supposed to put in a formal application for funding.

Government Operations committee  I don't know. I can't tell you that. I know it had her name on it. I don't know whether it had the ministerial—

Government Operations committee  I can recollect that maybe there were three or four people during the time that I would have met, and it would have been on a personal basis, to qualify either to meet for lunch at the cafeteria or to go off the Hill, but it was a central point because my office was close.

Government Operations committee  If I could, Mr. Guimond, again, I don't recollect that there was a sign on her door saying that she was the secretary of state. If you can show me that proof, then I will be obviously proven wrong, but all she had on her door was her MP name. It wasn't a secretary of state plaque on that door in her office.

Government Operations committee  I think I was spending time immediately after the closure of my office here in Centre Block, so probably at the beginning of November, for a few weeks. Other than that, I'd helped her in November-December with some of the work on her Christmas cards and other things that she was doing, and then that was it.